Creating a high-reliability health care system: Improving performance on core processes of care at johns hopkins medicine

Academic Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 165-172

  Pronovost, Peter J ^a,b   Armstrong, C Michael ^a   Demski, Renee ^c   Callender, Tiffany ^c   Winner, Laura ^c   Miller, Marlene R ^a,d   Austin, J Matthew ^a,b   Berenholtz, Sean M ^a,b   Yang, Ting ^a   Peterson, Ronald R ^e   Reitz, Judy A ^e   Bennett, Richard G ^f   Broccolino, Victor A ^g   Davis, Richard O ^h   Gragnolati, Brian A ^c   Green, Gene E ⁱ   Rothman, Paul B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g Howard County General Hospital   (United States)

^h Sibley Memorial Hospital   (United States)

ⁱ SUBURBAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASTHMA; CHILD; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PNEUMONIA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; ASTHMA; CHILD; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MARYLAND; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PNEUMONIA; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84922309320     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000610     Document Type: Article

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